EMIL WITASEK* (Brod nad Dyji 1900 - 1970 Vienna) Crucifixion, 1925 indian ink/paper 50 x 33 cm signed Emil Witasek, dated 1925 ESTIMATE °€ 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 Emil Witasek was born in 1900 in Guldenfurt near Nikolsburg in Moravia. From 1914 to 1917 he attended the Technical School for the Clay Industry in Znojmo. In 1920 he studied for a year at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Anton Hanak and then at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1925 Witasek had his first success with an exhibition participation in the Vienna Secession. After World War II he moved to Hanover, where he worked as an art teacher in the 1960s. Witasek participated as a sculptor in the simplified reconstruction of the cathedral at Hildesheim (1950 - 1960). Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Secession, Herbert Boeckl, Alfons Walde, Anton Kolig, August Brömse, New Objectivity, Expressive Realism, nude painting, landscape painting, Hans Plank, Albin Egger-Lienz PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.